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Source: School of Social Work, Rutgers University
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Huang, Chien-Chung |
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Pregnancy Intention from Men's Perspectives: Does Child Support Enforcement Matter? Working Paper, School of Social Work, Rutgers University, October 2004. Also: http://www.spsw.ncnu.edu.tw/newdesign/spsw1/doc/cs_pregnancy_appam.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: School of Social Work, Rutgers University Keyword(s): Fertility; Male Sample; Wantedness Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Most previous studies on pregnancy intention focused on only women's characteristics although decisions about sexual activity and contraceptive use involve two people not just one. This paper uses the 1982-2002 waves of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the prevalence of unwanted pregnancies from the men's perspective and investigate the association between state child support enforcement and unwanted pregnancies. The results find that the proportion of births from unwanted pregnancies was high for never-married men, 46 percent, and that strong child support enforcement was associated with a lower likelihood of unwanted pregnancies. The results suggest that strengthening child support enforcement not only has a direct impact on increasing the economic well-being of children in single-parent families, but also has an indirect effect on preventing unwanted pregnancies and births. |
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Bibliography Citation
Huang, Chien-Chung. "Pregnancy Intention from Men's Perspectives: Does Child Support Enforcement Matter?" Working Paper, School of Social Work, Rutgers University, October 2004. |